Tax Scams to keep an eye out for …”
“IDENTITY THIEVES HAVE found a way to make tax season even more taxing.The Internal Revenue Service recently issued a press release warning consumers about a slew of new scams where identity thieves contact taxpayers pretending to be IRS agents.
“Filing season always triggers a lot of scams,” says Michelle Lamishaw, an IRS spokeswoman. “There are so many even we can’t keep them straight anymore.” Many are newfangled twists on age-old frauds, such as the year-round streams of spam promising to unearth unclaimed tax refunds.
Here are the three latest scams the IRS is alerting consumers about this year:…..” Identity Theft Tax Scams
